We are pleased to announce that the Foucault Society will sponsor a panel at the Cultural Studies Association’s annual conference, which will be held on March 18-20, 2010, at the University of California, Berkeley.

**Critical Perspectives on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics**

This panel presents recent scholarly work by participants in the Foucault Society’s 2008-09 Seminar Series on Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics.

Thursday, March 18, 2:00-3:45pm. (Session 2, T2-J)

Chair: Michael Jolley (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Presenters:

Jeff Bussolini (College of Staten Island, CUNY), “The Role of Husserlian Phenomenology in the Genesis of German Ordoliberalism”

The Foucault Society’s 2008-09 Seminar Series was supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities (www.nyhumanities.org).

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The Foucault Society at CSA

We are pleased to announce that the Foucault Society will sponsor a panel at the Cultural Studies Association’s annual conference, which will be held on March 18-20, 2010, at the University of California, Berkeley.

**Critical Perspectives on Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics**

This panel presents recent scholarly work by participants in the Foucault Society’s 2008-09 Seminar Series on Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics.

Thursday, March 18, 2:00-3:45pm. (Session 2, T2-J)

Chair: Michael Jolley (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Presenters:

Jeff Bussolini (College of Staten Island, CUNY), “The Role of Husserlian Phenomenology in the Genesis of German Ordoliberalism”

The Foucault Society’s 2008-09 Seminar Series was supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities (www.nyhumanities.org).

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About the Foucault Society: The Foucault Society is an independent, non-profit educational organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) within a contemporary context. The Foucault Society is a 501 (c) (3) recognized public charity. As such donations are tax deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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The Space of Democracy event was held at Newcastle University last week. Their own site doesn’t mention it (!) but Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton held a conversation which included a discussion of the public intellectual.

The keynote speaker will be Marjorie Garber, Ph.D., of Harvard, a scholar and nimble-footed cultural detective who delights in pointing out the often weird connections that weave us into the web of our culture. Entertaining, much-published and a very popular speaker, she has trained her formidable interpretive gifts on everything from Shakespeare to dog love, often leaving readers and audiences astonished at her insights.

The conference “The Other Side of Reason: The History of Madness Today,” will take place in the Center for the Arts on UB’s North (Amherst) campus.

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In recognition of the recent publication of the complete English translation of Michel Foucault’s enormously influential “History of Madness,” speakers will discuss the philosopher’s reinvention of history as a conversation about the relationship between madness and reason.

The Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy just had its meeting (.pdf) in Pittsburgh. Among the interesting-looking sessions were the following. Would be nice if these could be posted up somewhere.

Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984
Marquis A (Stanford University Press)
Moderator: Edward McGushin, Saint Anselm College
Speaker: Todd May, Clemson University
Speaker: Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee
Respondent: Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University

Foucault, Skepticism, and Problematization
Salon 3 Moderator: Erinn Gilson, Wittenberg University
“Deleuze as a Source of Foucault’s Concept of Problematization,”
Colin Koopman, University of California, Santa Cruz
“On Michel Foucault, Skepticism, and the Grand Rise of Social Engineering,”
Matthew C. Eshleman, The University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Foucault: Race and Sexuality
Marquis B Moderator: Gerard Kuperus, University of San Francisco
“Biopolitics in the Jim Crow South: Lynching, Racial Hygiene, and the Fear of
Miscegenation,” Wade Roberts, Oklahoma City University
“African American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Patricia
Hill Collins with Michel Foucault,” Camisha Russell, Penn State University